alt Hacker NewsI don't care to remember them, but I do want them to be consistent so there's no dependency in DNS.
My home network isn't the Internet and isn't large: DNS is a much more complicated system to keep running then just fixed IP addresses in that circumstance.
Above a certain scale, that flips but not at the home level.
At the home level, you have a home router that can do mDNS out of the box. All devices are reachable by their hostname.